Anonymous offshoot CabinCr3w disbands

Tension and recent arrests were apparently behind the decision, which was announced via YouTube.

In the face of arrests and infighting, one Anonymous offshoot is calling it quits.

Started in fall 2011, the hacktivist group known as CabinCr3w appeared to be an informational mouthpiece, sharing tweets, news, and leaked documents relevant to Anonymous and Occupy Wall Street activities.

As one YouTuber, apparently in the know, explained in the comments, “[t]he person that has control over the CabinCr3w Twitter account … used it to screw over active CabinCr3w members - which are the people that actually wrote the press release.”

In the Daily Dot’s interview with a CabinCr3w member named MotorMouth in September, MotorMouth denied having any hacking abilities and declared himself a protest organizer. He said he wanted "to show people that Anonymous isn’t bad, or terrorists, or a threat to national security. We are trying to...do some good work, and defend our rights the correct way.”

It was a busy weekend for members of Anonymous around the globe. It was, presumably, an even busier weekend for system administrators in the CIA, the Department of Justice, and British spy service MI6, as they scrambled (unsuccessfully) to fight off distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks that took their websites offline.